About the Authors

Phoibe Renema

Contributed equally to this work with: Phoibe Renema, Jean-Francois Pittet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Jean-Francois Pittet

Contributed equally to this work with: Phoibe Renema, Jean-Francois Pittet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Angela P. Brandon

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sixto M. Leal Jr.

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Steven Gu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Grace Promer

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Andrew Hackney

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Phillip Braswell

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Andrew Pickering

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Grace Rafield

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sarah Voth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Ron Balczon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Mike T. Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

K. Adam Morrow

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Jessica Bell

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Jonathon P. Audia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Diego Alvarez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sam Houston State University, Conroe, Texas, United States of America

Troy Stevens

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ TS and BMW also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Brant M. Wagener

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bwagener@uabmc.edu

‡ TS and BMW also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.